External CSS - what am I doing wrong??

[Fractalice]

What MM needs to do is make it so that if you are including CSS files (in my
case, I'm including them in my top.php, which is then included onto pages), you
can still see them in the edit screen by the definition in the admin console.

There is a field that says "Only use this stylesheet" and I give it the direct
path to the css file on the server, but unless I put the css link code in the
page, it won't all for those styles to be see in the style list.

BTW - in this example, I have the forcetype set to plain/text so my php
include code will be safe on my pages, so it's not executing the top php where
the stylesheets are included. Can I get an answer on the MM?

[abna]

Maybe the issue is that you are linking to the css in an include. Have you
tried linking to it on the page itself? And, in Dreamweaver I've found that it
won't read styles with an absolute link to the css, only a relative link. I
haven't tried it out in Contribute yet, but that may be another issue.

[gefjo]

DW won't show styles with an absolute link because you're working locally. Assign a Design-Time style sheet.